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Looking Above and Beyond Inc

Our mission is to create awareness and enrichment for children with special needs and disabilities through our fundraising we raise money for organizations supporting them

$608k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$870kEducation$446kHuman Services$283kPhilanthropy$95kInternational$93kCommunity Improvement$60kArts & Culture$55kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $473,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $607,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,700 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMENTUMUCP$75,000
ETTA ISRAEL$50,000
AURELIA FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SCHNEIDER CHILDREN$35,000
UCLA INTERVENTION PROGRAM$35,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$25,000
BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO$25,000
HOPE FOUNDATION$20,000
FRIENDS OF SHAMIR MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
NO LIMIT THEATRE GROUP$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
HADASSA$20,000
PEF ISSRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$18,000
MORGAN'S$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Miracle Babies: $10k → 11%ABILITY FIRST CAMP PAIVIKA: $20k → 14%MORGAN'S: $15k → 16%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%ANGEL CITY: $13k → 14%Angel City: $10k → 14%BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $25k → 17%BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $18k → 17%Beit Issie Shapiro: $15k → 17%SOLVE GNE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$1.4M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MA
    MOMENTUM AGENCIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +56%
  • TA
    TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +57%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • A
    ABILITYFIRST
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Make-a-Wish Foundation International

None

Human Services
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

—
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center

To promote and support the rambam health care campus-the premier medical center in northern israel.

International
9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
10
American Physicians Fellowship Inc for Medicine in Israel

To advance the state of medical education, research and care in israel by assisting in the training of young israeli physicians and healthcare professionals, and fostering ties between the north american healthcare community and israel's…

International
11
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%49%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
14%
13,203/91,923

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
16/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Charity League Ventura County Chapter — $220,000 · PhilanthropyNational Charity League Ventur…THE AURELIA FOUNDATION — $208,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AURELIA FOUNDATIONHope Foundation of Iranian-American Jewish Communities — $55,000 · PhilanthropyHope Foundation of Iranian-Ame…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $43,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMOMENTUM AGENCIES — $460,000 · HealthMOMENTUM AGENCIESTHE HOPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR (ASSAF HAROFEH) MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION — $207,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT — $50,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOL FOR C…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationLIFE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $165,000 · OtherTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZ…STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $35,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY…BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO — $18,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $15,000 · OtherNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $50,000 · OtherNO LIMITS THEATER G…+7 more — $60,000 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $58,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance — $22,500 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST — $20,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIES — $15,000 · Human ServicesMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation — $15,000 · Human ServicesHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $60,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC — $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $25,000 · International
Philanthropy$536,000Health$530,000Education$282,500Other$343,000Human Services$155,500Community Improvement$60,000International$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOMENTUM AGENCIES — $460,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNational Charity League Ventura County Chapter — $220,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION — $208,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $207,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $58,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHope Foundation of Iranian-American Jewish Communities — $55,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $43,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR ISRAEL INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILITYFIRST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR (ASSAF HAROFEH) MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY TRAINING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND VISION MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundThe Stanley & Joyce B…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Looking Above and Beyond Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Looking Above and Beyond Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Looking Above and Beyond Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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